sbcl-devel

Hello all,
I finally made Sparc/Solaris 8 an offer it couldn't refuse and have,
under Cristophe's expert supervision, managed to build SBCL. Apart
from the previously mailed assembler syntax patch, the nm invocation
in Config.sparc requires the "-x" switch, or the sbcl.nm file it
creates will use decimal, not hex, notation, which Cristophe says
isn't the format that is expected by later parts of the build process.
I've run run-tests.sh (save for irrat.pure.lisp and
bit-vector.impure-cload.lisp, which Cristophe tells me aren't expected
to work) using the built sbcl, and only fail for pathnames:
The assertion (EQUAL TRUENAMES
'(#P"/home/eceanms/local/src/sbcl-0.7.6-with-show/tests/filesys-test-4497/link-3"
#P"/home/eceanms/local/src/sbcl-0.7.6-with-show/tests/filesys-test-4497/link-4"
#P"/home/eceanms/local/src/sbcl-0.7.6-with-show/tests/filesys-test-4497/link-5"
#P"/home/eceanms/local/src/sbcl-0.7.6-with-show/tests/filesys-test-4497/link-6"
#P"/home/eceanms/local/src/sbcl-0.7.6-with-show/tests/filesys-test-4497/test-1.tmp"
#P"/home/eceanms/local/src/sbcl-0.7.6-with-show/tests/filesys-test-4497/test-2.tmp"
#P"/home/eceanms/local/src/sbcl-0.7.6-with-show/tests/filesys-test-4497/wild\\?test.tmp")) failed.
I think the symbolic link across filesystems may be the problem, since
~/local is a symlink to the hard drive, and ~ is NFS. I'll see if I
can narrow this down to a simple test case on Monday or, if the
correct arcane constellation is in place, provide a fix. I wouldn't
count on it. :)
"Gimme an F! Gimme an R! Gimme an I!" etc. :)
--Tony